Arap Saçı · Erkin Koray

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Country / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 28-30 and 32-34, and 3 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
ARAP SAÇI · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 11, 12, 35, 46, 47 and 71.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 8 sections: 54 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-70.

PART A
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART A
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJBGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Arap Saçı?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Arap Saçı hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Arap Saçı?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 11, 12, 35, 46, 47 and 71.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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